The Shoot- Day 3

This was our final day of the shoot, We had spoken on social networking site and discussed we wanted to take night-time shots so I arranged to take pictures separately and we would look at them the next day and discuss whether or not they would work for the film.
I used dim lightening and was given natural shadows by the darkness to create our "wifey" sexy photo-shoot, this in the long run saved us time because we wasted a lot of time the day before "creatively" planning. We spent the rest of the day perfecting our stop frame animation to make our photographs flow.

The Shoot- Day 2

I fully charged the camera up for the shoot today to save the problems from Day 1, We filmed the second half of the script however we encountered some problems with creativity, finding props for the party seen and “teddy being beaten up” caused us to stop for an hour to think about how we would film this. If we had thought about it before hand we could of properly story boarded this and brain stormed ideas about what props we had available. We also had problems trying to make smoke appear effective on pictures, we spent a long time blowing smoke onto the camera we wasted a lot of money on cigarettes we would of tested this method before the shot.  Our pictures did not come out effective so we had to cut certain shots out of the film, this was a disappointment because we had planned for this, so we spent a lot more time thinking of how to fill the gap.

The Shoot- Day 1

We arranged to meet at 10-am due to bus times we was 10 minutes late but this didn't hold up our schedule because we allowed time for lateness. We had slight problems with our camera before we left, We weren't able to take out a SLR camera so we had to do with a compact camera so we decided to use Katie Louise's personal camera because it had higher mega pixels.

All the photos used for the films were taken in my house, we used this location because it looked urban and   was convenient for the equipment. However we did have difficulty with the lightening because of the position of the my flat, it is shadowed with the flats above so it was hard for us to take pictures without the sun going in and out. We decided to do a bit each other spitting up the story board into 3 days, we had to take into account charging up the camera because the battery seemed to go quickly.

We overcame the lighting by attaching torches and small lamps to clothes hangers above the teddy by doing this also created shadows which gave our images depth. We found it really useful completing our story board CORRECTLY before going to shoot because we didn't get stuck and mess around not knowing what we was doing, we looked the story board for help

Script

Teddy Script:

Teddy is sitting on a bench, with a small lunchbox next to him and a blackberry in his hand, focus on the facebook update: Teddy is on the bench alone again. The teddy then has a sandwich in his hand ready to eat it.

Harry:          Hmm that was nice sandwich, cheese and pickle (nom nom nom – sandwich disappear which the nosie is being herd)

I don’t really feel like going home, life isn’t what it used to be. Liam; my best friend, well he always was, I suppose now he just see’s me as Harry the teddy that gets in the way. It wasn’t always like this mind you; I’ve been there for Liam when he’s needed me.

(Cuts to the scene of the Harry and the Sex scene)

Harry:  Sophie was his first love; He would talk to me about his feelings for her and how he longed to have her, unfortunely I misunderstood what he meant

(Noises banging)

Harry: He clearly didn’t know what he was doing or how to treat a real lady but near the less I had to sit through it ‘ HUFFFF’ even covering my eyes weren’t enough

(Condom falls on his head)

Harry: Its not easy being a teddy

(Head falls down as if in shame)

Harry: I knew things were getting bad when he took me to a party, it wasn’t like previous ones I’ve been to where the girls and boys played pass the parcel and musical chairs, it was very dark and the girls and boys were dancing strangely together. I tried a sip of beer but it made me feel terribly sick

  (Show a puddle of sick next to him)

 My head was spinning, there was only one thing I remember though and that is a couple of Liam’s friends stole my blackberry now how will I update my twitter and facebook?

(Tear rolls down his face)

Harry: Harry loved to experiment with different things, I remember when he made a peanut butter and ham sandwich or when he washed his hair with fairy liquid but this time he wanted to experiment with something a little stronger

(Smoke gets blown in teddy’s face & his paw covers his mouth)

Harry: the smell was unbearable and it gave me a little cough but Liam loved it so I had to put up with it, I hoped it was a phase but it wasn’t

(Teddy drops his head and lays on the floor)

Harry: Liam seemed to have a lot of friends, he enjoyed his “hobbies” however I certainly didn’t and I couldn’t wait for Liam to grow up so we could get involved in mature activities but deep down I knew this was never going to happen

(Teddy looking at a picture of him and Liam) 

Harry: But luck would have it my small prayer was answered, Liam wanted us to go on a trip to “Sophie’s” again her mother had gone away for the weekend and she was “lonely” so goodness knows why we had to go around

(Teddy in the rucksack half hanging out)

Harry: and then I saw her, she was beautiful, I’d only ever seen something that beautiful when Liam brought a home grown rose from nursery class, her paws looked so soft, her fur so sleek

(Close up of female teddy lying on the bed with sunglasses on doing a SEXY POSE)

Harry: Now here is a woman I would like to spend a little time with, but how to start

Hi I’m teddy, yes that’s right teddy bear ;) no no maybe I should try where have you been all my life? Nope that’s cheesy okay relax

(Teddy lies next to Female Teddy)

Harry: But I didn’t use any cheesy lines, I just planted a single kiss on her lips and she was mine

(Teddy kisses Teddy)

Harry: This meant it was goodbye Liam and hello Wifey! 

Picture of Liam For photoframe

Prop List

3 – Desk lamps

1 – Cardboard box

Glow sticks

Empty beer bottle

1 - Rack sack

1 – Condom

Blackberry mobile phone

Teddy Bear 

Female Teddy Bear

Small lunchbox

Half a cheese sandwich 

scramble eggs/sweet corn/baked beans - to make SICK

Short Film Mood Board